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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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